Re: gEDA-user: PCB, two simple questions

[Steven Michalske <smichalske@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 2, 2009, at 7:49 AM, DJ Delorie wrote:

>
>> When building PCB we get for each footprint file *.fp a png image  
>> *.png.
>> For what is this image necessary?
>
> We make HTML files also, so you can browse the library with a web
> browser.
>
>> If I remember correctly there was a statement on this list telling  
>> that
>> current pcb generates newlib copies for all the m4 footprints. This  
>> may
>> be fine for most people, but is there an option to disable this  
>> behavior
>> if someone does not like it?
>
> If we disable it, those footprints won't be available, at least on
> Windows, which doesn't have m4.  We're trying to get rid of the
> runtime dependency on m4.
>

i depend on the runtime M4 for my part library,  i hope that, this  
could have been read as were making runtime M4 optional.

yes i could switch to newlib.... and compile my sources, but that  
requires me to switch the environments of about 5 other engineers.

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